Data Access and Storage APIs

Data Access and Storage APIs provide access to a wide range of system processes, including indexing, transfer, transformation and presentation. They make up a main driver for clients that interface the resources managed by the system or accessible through facilities available within the system.

A large number of APIs are dedicated to meet data access requirements including APIs of services, service plugins, client-side libraries, server-side libraries and front-end interfaces.

This document outlines the design rational and the key features for those APIs.

Overview

APIs

Name	Description	Type	Protocol	Framework
Tree-Manager-Service	Tree-based access to arbitrary sources to structured data	gCube Web Service	SOAP	gCore
Tree-Manager-Library	Java APIs for accessing the tree-manager-service from within client runtimes	Java	Local	CL
Tree-Manager-Framework	Java APIs for source-specific plugins of the tree-manager-service	Java	Local	N/A
Common-Trees	Java API for creation, inspection, filtering, and serialisation of tree structures	Java	Local	N/A
gDoc-model-library	Java API for gDoc creation, inspection, and tree serialization of gDoc document structures	Java	Local	N/A
gDoc-document-library	Java API for gDoc-based access to the tree-manager service	Java	Local	N/A
View-manager-service	SOAP-accessible APIs for the management of views over data sources accessible via the tree-manager-service	gCube Web Service	SOAP	gCore
View-manager-library	Java APIs for accessing the view-manager-service from within client runtimes	Java	Java	CL
Manager Storage Manager		Java	Java	CL
Products Discovery Species Products Discovery		gCube Web Service	SOAP	gCore
Spd-plugin-framework		Java	Local	CL
Spd-client-library		Java	Local	CL

Tree-Manager-Service

• Description: Tree-based access to arbitrary sources to structured data.
• Type: gCube Web Service
• Protocol: SOAP
• Framework: gCore
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc: https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/The_Tree_Manager

Tree-Manager-Library

• Description: Java APIs for accessing the tree-manager-service from within client runtimes.
• Type: Java
• Protocol: Local
• Framework: CL
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc: https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/The_Tree_Manager_Library

Tree-Manager-Framework

• Description: Java APIs for source-specific plugins of the tree-manager-service.
• Type: Java
• Protocol: Local
• Framework: N/A
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc: https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/The_Tree_Manager_Framework

Common-Trees

• Description: Java API for creation, inspection, filtering, and serialisation of tree structures.
• Type: Java
• Protocol: Local
• Framework: N/A
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc:

gDoc-model-library

• Description: Java API for gDoc creation, inspection, and tree serialization of gDoc document structures.
• Type: Java
• Protocol: Local
• Framework: N/A
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc: https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/GCube_Document_Model

gDoc-Document-Library

• Description: Java API for gDoc-based access to the tree-manager service.
• Type: Java
• Protocol: Local
• Framework: N/A
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc: https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/GCube_Document_Model

View-Manager-Service

• Description: SOAP-accessible APIs for the management of views over data sources accessible via the tree-manager-service.
• Type: gCube Web Service
• Protocol: SOAP
• Framework: gCore
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc: https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/View_Manager

View-Manager-Library

• Description: Java APIs for accessing the view-manager-service from within client runtimes.
• Type: Java
• Protocol: Local
• Framework: CL
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc:

Storage Manager

• Description:
• Type:
• Protocol:
• Framework:
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc: https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/Storage_Management_NEW

Species Products Discovery

• Description:
• Type:
• Protocol:
• Framework:
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc:

Spd-Plugin-Framework

• Description:
• Type:
• Protocol:
• Framework:
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc:

Spd-Client-Library

• Description:
• Type:
• Protocol:
• Framework:
• Key Features:
• Wiki Doc: